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POTPOURRI

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Ali Sanati-Mehrizy; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

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Computing & Information Technology

computing careers. The curriculumcontent for the Computer Science degree is based on the 2008 ACM Curriculum Report. TheComputer Science degree at UVU is accredited by Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) in 2002 and currently has more than 500 students.To integrate Computational Intelligence concepts into our curriculum, we decided to use the firstmodel by offering an undergraduate course on Artificial Neural Networks. This course wasoffered as a senior level elective course for the first time in the Fall 2012 semester. Offering this Page 23.316.13course as a required course was not an option for us, so not every student is

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FPD 8: Engineering Math Issues

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shelley Lorimer, MacEwan University

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First-Year Programs

engineering and is a registered professional engineer with APEGA (Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta). Prior to her career at MacEwan, Shelley worked in industry as a research engineer and a consulting engineer for several years. Page 23.323.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Assessment Tools as Predictors of Changing Pre-Engineering SkillsAbstractThis article was motivated by a need to understand the academic strengths and weaknesses ofengineering students entering first-year. The underlying impetus was the improvement of theeducational

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Involving Undergraduates in Research

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yusuf A Mehta, Rowan University; Ralph Alan Dusseau P.E., Rowan University; Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University

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Civil Engineering

and approaches. While studying as an undergraduate I hadtaken classes in civil engineering materials, transportation engineering and pavement design,which provided me a working knowledge to preparing me for career. The clinics expanded myunderstanding of the material and introduced me to new material like reclaimed asphaltpavement, warm mix asphalt, modified binders, which typically aren’t discussed in detail inclass. Furthermore the clinics provided an opportunity to hone my soft skills by writing projectreports and presenting our research and designs to our clients and other professors. Byperforming hands on testing and analysis as an undergraduate I gained a deeper understandingof testing results which has helped me extensively in my

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University; Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Robert M Nickel, Bucknell University; Richard J. Kozick, Bucknell University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Ying Tang, Rowan University; Steven H Chin, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

students ratetheir interest in taking each on a scale of 1 to 5. A combined score is calculated using sixcourses relevant to biometrics, namely, computer forensics, biometric signal processing,machine learning, digital image processing, pattern recognition and biometric securitytechnologies. For questions 3 and 4, fourteen subject areas are given. For question 3,students rate each area in terms of pursuing a graduate degree. In question 4, students ratetheir interest in pursuing a career. A combined score is calculated using five subject areasrelated to biometrics, namely, image processing, computer forensics, machine learning,biometrics and speech processing. Table 2 gives the results. For questions 2 and 4, thereis a statistically significant

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Dynamics - Wow! They accelerate

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sudhir Kaul, University of Mount Union; Pattabhi Sitaram, Baker College, Flint, MI

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Mechanics

’ ‘overall very good lab component’ ‘labs were interesting and helped me to get exposure to new equipment’ ‘the lab helped me gain skills I can use in my career’ ‘the labs helped me better understand what I was learning in the class’ ‘the tutorials helped me to understand lecture content’ ‘labs were directly related to what we did in class. That made it a lot easier to understand the material’ ‘the lab helped me become more comfortable with MATLAB’ ‘lab helped to give meaning to what was taught in lecture’ ‘lab was interactive, fun and useful for the learning process’The student comments were collected through a survey at the end of the semester. The studentcomments listed above clearly

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas David, Iowa State University; Suman Debnath, Purdue University; Munadir Aziz Ahmed; Dionysios C. Aliprantis, Iowa State University; Maryam Saeedifard, Purdue University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

University. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2009. He serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Power Engineering Letters and the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. His research interests are related to electromechanical energy conversion and the analysis of power systems. More recently his work has focused on technologies that enable the integration of renewable energy sources in the electric power system, and the electrification of transportation.Prof. Maryam Saeedifard, Purdue University Page 23.422.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013

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Software Engineering Outreach: Industry, K-12

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Clare McInerney, Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre; Mike Hinchey, Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Reseaach Centre

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

students design should assume noprior computing experience. Considering we do not have a computer science teacher preparationprogramme in any university in Ireland, we cannot assume any prior computing experience.Occasionally we work with teachers that studied computer science, changed careers and completedteacher training or teachers that would have worked in the UK education system as ICT teachersand moved back to Ireland but these would be exceptions.Lesson 3: Build RelationshipsBuild relationships with national networks/bodies responsible for curriculum development and foractivities relating to teachers and ICT. Leverage and utilize resources, infrastructure,communication channels, and so on, for established subjects to spread the word about

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Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Johanna Gretchen Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Karen A. Thole is the head of the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She holds two degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. After receiving her Ph.D., she spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Thermal Turbomachinery at the University of Karslruhe in Germany. Her academic career began in 1994 when she became an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1999, she accepted a position in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Virginia Tech where she was promoted to Professor in

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Assessment of Community Engagement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew J. Traum, Milwaukee School of Engineering; David A Howell, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Leah C. Newman, MSOE

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Community Engagement Division

thepinnacle and capstone of the students’ engineering curriculum while propelling them into theirprofessional careers. When consciously adopted by engineering faculty as an underlying projectmanagement pedagogy, servant-leadership is an effective and powerful teaching technique.Faculty become servant-leaders by providing guidance to their students in planning,implementing, and testing their designs.As a teaching pedagogy used in business, servant-leadership has been shown to increase courseimpact, meaning, and relevance while empowering students, increasing their confidence, andenriching the student-teacher relationship. [1] Servant-Leadership used in marketing has beenshown to increase student knowledge and skills as well as instilling increased

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division - Technical Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Frank E Falcone, Villanova University; Edward F. Glynn P.E., Villanova University; Mark Edward Graham, Villanova University; Mark Doorley Ph.D., Villanova University

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Engineering Ethics

: As one of our strategic initiatives to improve the undergraduate program and to better prepare our students for their professional careers, we are investigating means for Page 23.508.7 improving our engineering ethics program. As you are likely aware, most if not all of our students currently are required to take an ethics course from the ethics department. A study that we funded 3 years ago to look at that approach indicated that while the students were getting a good fundamental introduction to ethics principles, they were not getting an opportunity to understand these principles and apply them in an

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aditya Akundi, RIMES, University of Texas at El Paso; Eric D Smith, University of Texas, El Paso

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Systems Engineering

states the outcomes that a student is expected to achieveimmediately upon graduation.SACS Long-Term Objectives for MSSE GraduatesThese are goals for career and lifetime achievement for graduates to attain 5 to 20 yearsafter graduation, by applying the Program Learning Outcomes.1. IMSE Graduates will assume enterprise leadership responsibilities in Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering environments.2. IMSE Graduates will develop innovative systems and processes for the design, development and deployment of products and services, for the benefit of society.3. IMSE Graduates will discover new knowledge, and develop new tools for the practice of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering.4. IMSE Graduates will earn

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"Modular" Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Qinghua He, Tuskegee University; Rong Zhang, Auburn University; Jin Wang, Auburn University; Frank Leonard Armstead III, Tuskegee University; Rong Zhu Walburn; Donald Ray Johnson Jr; Julius Lenard Taylor II, Tuskegee University Research Assistant

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Chemical Engineering

learning material will enable instructors to easily select, share, expand, and modify Page 23.69.5the materials to fit students with various learning capabilities and career goals.Due to the complex nature of the biofuel processes and students’ limited exposure to biofueltechnology, most students would feel incompetent in dealing with problems related to biofuel.To help students overcome this barrier, we have also been creating a series of web modules toaccompany the classroom modules by exploiting two instructional strategies: computer-assistedinstruction and visual learning. Computer-assisted instruction is an innovative instructionalstrategy

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan W. Klingbeil, Wright State University; Anthony Bourne, Wright State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

linkbetween program impacts on student motivation and self-efficacy and ultimate graduate rates.The Wright State ModelIt is well known that student success in engineering is highly dependent on student success inmath, and perhaps more importantly, on the ability to connect the math to the engineering1-6.However, first-year students typically arrive at the university with virtually no understanding ofhow their pre-college math background relates to their chosen degree programs, let alone theirfuture careers. And despite the national call to increase the number of graduates in engineeringand other STEM disciplines7 , the inability of incoming students to successfully advance past thetraditional freshman calculus sequence remains a primary cause of

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Improving course effectiveness

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard L Marcellus, Northern Illinois University

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Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Page 23.93.5component tasks that are connected and help the solver step through the production of requestedresults. It may be chattiness, comfort-speech, weak academic humor, or attempts to makeconnections to a young person's sense of humor, curiosity, wonder, honesty, dignity, social life,future career, and/or passion for reform. It may call attention to the key concepts and tools neededto solve the problem. It may be embedded in the statement of the required tasks.A challenge is the statement of what the solver is required to produce. It may be formulated with orwithout scaffolding.A target is what the problem poser hopes will be accomplished when a learner engages with theproblem. This could be the exercise or development of any

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Using Communication and Writing Techniques to Improve Student Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Chemical Engineering

helps them to become a reflective practitioner once they graduate andbegin their professional career. The topics for their individual reflection paper included:  The engineering design process  Engineering/math/science connections  Technical writingThe students were provided several resources(4-7) to help them with this assignment. In addition,the students were provided a grading rubric (provided in Appendix A), prepared by the authorwhich is a synthesis of other critical thinking rubrics(8-10).Results In the analysis of the original design solution, the most striking result was that less thanhalf of the teams as freshman did not connect the design criteria to human constraints (bloodvolume, system

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FPD 3: Research on First-Year Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xingyu Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisa K. Orr, Louisiana Tech University

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First-Year Programs

. Frontiers in Education 2009, San Antonio, TX, October 18-21, 2009.9. Orr, M.K., M.W. Ohland, R.A. Long, S.M. Lord, C.E. Brawner, and R.A. Layton, “Engineering Matriculation Paths: Outcomes of Direct Matriculation, First-Year Engineering, and Post-General Education Models,” Proc. 2012 IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Seattle, WA, October 3-6, 2012.10. Brannan, K.P. and P.C. Wankat, "Survey of First-Year Programs," Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education annual Conference and Exposition, June 12-15, 2005 in Salt Lake City, UT.11. C. Adelman, “Women and men of the engineering path: A model for analyses of undergraduate careers,” Washington, DC: Department of Education, 1998

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Software Engineering Pedagogical Approaches

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Feras A. Batarseh, University of Central Florida

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

fully inspired byhuman body systems and their parts.KEY WORDSHuman Physiology, Lifecycle Model, Software Engineering, Life Sciences, Artificial Page 23.157.2Intelligence.1. Introduction and BackgroundThis section introduces a background on Software Engineering lifecycle models,Artificial Intelligence approaches, and related Computer Science educational models.Students in life-sciences (as well as many other majors) need to be equipped withknowledge about software in general, and that's due to multiple reasons: 1) at differentpoints of their careers they will use software tools, 2) they will need to get up to speedsome of the medical equipment they

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Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steve E. Watkins, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Engineering Physics & Physics

advancedcourses in other technologies, cf. reference4. However, introductory undergraduate courses inelectronics and devices rarely provide a strong linkage between the underlying device physicsand the circuit design and analysis. Such courses tend to focus either on semiconductor physicsor on electronics analysis. Consequently, student pursuing a devices track may not haveprerequisites for electronics applications and students pursing an electronic circuits track may nothave prerequisites for device physics. Besides educational and career flexibility, breadth ofunderstanding can have great advantage in inter-area and interdisciplinary technologies. Forinstance, dedicated hardware for embedded systems may require device and circuit designknowledge for an

Conference Session

Construction Industry Issues in the Classroom

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa M Holliday P.E., University of Oklahoma; Matthew Reyes, University of Oklahoma; Richard Cecil Ryan, University of Oklahoma; Kenneth F. Robson, University of Oklahoma

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Construction

’ perspectives, the partnership developed with the local industry to teach thelabs was the most beneficial part of the lab development and administration. The use of skilledtrade instructors to help lead the labs provided numerous benefits. The skilled trade instructorsprovided current field based expertise that the academic instructor could not provide. The tradeinstructors provided valuable insight into the content of each lab and suggested improvementsrelated to the materials, work process, tools, equipment, and shop drawings for each specific lab.Additionally, they represented specialty trades that typically students have less exposure toduring course activities, career fairs or program events.The labs offered formal and informal opportunities for

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Blake; kathleen marrs; Jeff Watt; Andrew Gavrin

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationthis in my career?” This essay addresses these questions on an ongoing basis, helping studentsstay motivated. Puzzles act as the opposite “bookends” to the WarmUp exercises. Like WarmUps, puzzlesare delivered and answered via the WWW. However, where we use WarmUps to introduceindividual topics and subtopics, we use Puzzles to tie a group of topics together, and to connectthose topics to prior parts of the course. Puzzles are intended to be difficult even for the beststudents in the class. They often ask students to integrate course content with knowledge fromother courses, and they are

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

. Qualitative feedback from students is presentedbelow through their comments. 9 Liked working with software and hardware integration 9 Enjoyed working with partner 9 Applying classroom knowledge to real-world examples was interesting 9 Great to have specification-based project development experience 9 Very thorough, easy to follow LabVIEW programming exercises at the beginning of the semester got me a great start 9 Just getting to do a self-developed lab project was fun 9 Very interesting course……making me lean towards computer-based automation career 9 I found the course challenging and interesting ¾ Reliance on partner was a problem ¾ Writing lab reports was time consuming ¾ Include a little more structured learning

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jucain Butler

effectively enhance student learning and assessment of this learning.While the preliminary work for this proposal has been done for first year students at NotreDame, our interest is general and is intended to address: (a) Engineering student retention—which is a continuing problem at Notre Dame as well in the US in general—primarily byexciting students, at an early stage of their educational careers, about the creative as well as theanalytical nature of engineering and (b) enhance student learning by providing a wellintegrated package in which the web-based textual materials define the topic, carefully organizethe presentation, and give feedback to students and faculty through "quizzing", a powerfulsimulation package that allows students to

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Teamwork, K-12: Projects to Promote Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Arvid Andersen

cooperation with local or foreign companies. We do reachout to industry to develop programmes of mutual interest. Projects are located in the technicalengineering areas with supporting wide-range activities including marketing and business.The focus is on the overall realisation process rather than on any specific science or skill. Inthis way our students are exposed to appropriate activities to value and appreciate diversity.This is recognized to be an important part of the career of the future engineer.IntroductionMore and more companies arrange seminars for employees to discuss their expectations offuture employer/employee relationship. The following text is a typical example of what isfrequently discussed at management level in international

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Beaman; Philip Schmidt

students is also equipped for videoconferencing,and plans are in the works for similarly equipping a 100 seat lecture room. This will give usvideoconference capability ranging from small project groups to large classes.Development of a web-based student portfolio system: Media professionals in our FacultyInnovation Center, working with faculty and students, have developed a web-based electronicportfolio system which permits students to display the work they have done throughout theirproject-centered academic careers. The system consists of a preformatted template with a veryuser-friendly interface which allows students to easily create and update portfolios; it alsoincludes provisions to allow student control of access to portfolios. These

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Innovations in the Aerospace Classroom

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Olivier de Weck

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Student Teams and Active Learning

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Schmidt; David Bigio; Linda Schmidt; Paige Smith

majors varied much less than thedifferences displayed within Table 5 for gender and ethnicity. This is not surprising since thestudents are in their first year, are in interdisciplinary teams, and have not differentiated their skillsand engineering approaches yet. Perhaps we can also tentatively assert that there is nopredetermined bias against team training by academic major at this early point in a student'sengineering career.5. DiscussionThis paper will conclude by making general observations about implementing team training intothe undergraduate engineering curriculum including obtaining faculty buy-in and "lessonslearned."9 The discussion is greatly assisted by a recent evaluation report written by our project'sexternal evaluator, Dr. Carol

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International Collaborative Efforts

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Rebecca Cors; Pat Eagan

recently, the Engineering Learning Center was established to foster effective student-centered teaching and learning within the College of Engineering. Major programs include the Teaching Improvement Program, a New Educator's Orientation Program, and a K-12 Outreach Program, as well as links with national programs like the annual, week-long Leadershape leadership training for selected students. As Engineering Learning Center programs developed in the 1990s, the College built an Engineering Centers Building to house it, along with the growing Technical Communications Certificate Program, Engineering Career Services Center, and a new Student Leadership Center. The Student Leadership Center will coordinate engineering

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mausumi Syamal; Gary Ybarra

well informed” about engineering. This statistic is the result of thefact that engineering is generally not introduced in either elementary or secondary education.Exposing elementary and middle school students to engineering concepts will increaseawareness of the general population and potentially lead to more children pursuing careers inengineering fields. This project introduces students at Rogers-Herr Middle School in Durham,North Carolina, to mechanical engineering fundamentals throughout the course of a schoolyear. Our goal is to create an integrated curriculum accompanied by hands-on projects andweekly quizzes. Teaching is structured with weekly lectures accompanied by several interactivedemonstrations and experiments. Students are given

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Computers in Education Poster Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Bowen

Like many engineering schools, the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlottehas had a continuing debate regarding the freshman engineering curricula. One of the issuesunder discussion is the need for computer programming in the curricula. Like facultyelsewhere5 nearly all faculty at UNC Charlotte believe that students need to learn early intheir academic career “basic” computer skills such as word processing, spreadsheet analysis, Page 8.184.1and data presentation. Likewise, many faculty favor the approach taken by other schools2 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

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Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kelley; Mark Talbot; Jeffrey Starke; Michael Butkus

by the students. • Applicable to future careers as military officers. • Creativity is allowed. Students and faculty are also afforded the opportunity to revisit design flaws or concerns in the ensuing semester or guide the other group through their experience that might have resulted in failure of the design. This also provides an opportunity to evaluate and critique their peers resulting in a higher end learning experience. • Emphasizes the iterative nature of design. • Increases the project management skills of the students by providing them with the opportunity to coordinate within their group, with other groups, with clients, and with faculty. • Created a synergy as the students